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This book is slowly growing on me. The above quotes are just a small sample of how Burns sets the tone of a community where what you say, what is said about you, and what you hear, control your actions and the actions of others. 🤭🤫

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In this mythical, poetic novel, Johnson pieces together fragments of a story to form a complete narrative about what happened on the river when Grethel was thirteen, and how this event has impacted Grethel‘s life and relationship to her estranged and demented mother, Sarah.

I really liked this book, and out of the 5 #ManBooker novels I‘ve read, this is my fave. I get why this isn‘t for everyone, but I found it moving and beautiful.

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This could have been great. It had so much going for it, but in the end, it turned out to be the beginning of three novels which got tied together in 20 pages or so.

This book tells the story of Fahrouk, a refugee, Lampy, a young man struggling, and John, a sort of bad guy. I was a lot more interested in Fahrouk‘s story but it felt like it was just added to the book for the drama and emotionality, not for its own sake.

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I‘m quite #headoverheels in love with these #MBL2018 covers 😍 Although I wasn‘t a huge fan of The Water Cure, and I have seen mixed reviews for the tagged book and Everything Under, I‘m still pretty excited to read them all. I really hope I‘ll like some of them at least! 🤞

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There‘s no doubt that Ondaatje can write beautifully. Unfortunately, the beautiful writing just wasn‘t enough to really grab me and make me interested in the story. It might have been the audio, but I struggled with keeping up with the time shifts, and the story felt forced at times. I was more interested in the first part of the book about Nathaniel‘s experiences with crime, but it still felt like Ondaatje could have done more.

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In this dystopian book, three sisters are living with their parents, and are undergoing different “therapies” to cure them of contamination from the outside. But one day three men arrive, and everything changes.

This book reminded me of “Gather the Daughters”, “The Power”, and “The Handmaid‘s Tale”, but without being as engaging. So much is left unsaid, and I would have liked to have the context explained a bit more.

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